Background
Keith, Lawrence Massillon was born on October 4, 1824 in Orangeburg District, South Carolina, United States. Son of George and Mary (Wannamaker) Keith.
Keith, Lawrence Massillon was born on October 4, 1824 in Orangeburg District, South Carolina, United States. Son of George and Mary (Wannamaker) Keith.
Graduate South Carolina. College (now University of Southern California), 1843.
Admitted to South Carolina. bar, 1845. Member United States House of Representatives from South Carolina., 33d-36th congresses, 1853-July 16, 1856, re-elected to fill vacancy caused by his own resignation, August 6, 1856-December 1860. Member Provisional Congress of Confederacy, Montgomery, Alabama, later Richmond, Virginia, 1861.
Organized, commissioned colonel 20th Regiment, South Carolina.
Volunteers, later brigadier general. Mortally wounded at Battle of Cold Harbor (Virginia), June 1, 1864.
Member United States House of Representatives from South Carolina., 33d-36th congresses, 1853-July 16, 1856, re-elected to fill vacancy caused by his own resignation, August 6, 1856-December 1860. Member Provisional Congress of Confederacy, Montgomery, Alabama, later Richmond, Virginia, 1861.
Married Susanna Sparks, 2 children.
